Novelist Russell Banks, dead at age 82, found the mythical in marginal lives

Russell Banks' 1985 breakout novel, Continental Drift, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.He's pictured above in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2007.Thony Belizaire/AFP via Getty Images American novelist and activist Russell Banks died on Sunday of cancer at the age of 82.Banks built an A-list literary career writing about working-class families and immigrants who struggle on the margins of American life.

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